In the early hours of 19 May, 13-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Kamel Sarhan’s world was turned upside down.
“I was asleep at 6am when I suddenly heard the sound of an explosion,” the boy told Middle East Eye.
Israeli soldiers had stormed the home of Sarhan and his family in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as part of a special operation aimed at capturing the teenager's father, a senior leader of the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.
Sarhan had been sleeping next to his mother, father and his four siblings Yusuf, 2, Jude, 9, Mahmoud, 10, and Wael, 11.
"We all live together - me, my parents, and my siblings - in a single room with a kitchen and a bathroom, all built atop the rubble of our destroyed home," he explained.
